internet campaign to restore star trek final frontier starts

I don't know. This whole idea still sounds a lot like closing the shuttlebay doors decades after the ship burned up in re-entry.

I mean, it's not like we're talking about restoring a lost classic that was butchered by the studios before its initial release, like TOUCH OF EVIL or even BLADE RUNNER. It's THE FINAL FRONTIER for "God's" sake.

I don't know. This whole idea still sounds a lot like closing the shuttlebay doors decades after the ship burned up in re-entry.

I mean, it's not like we're talking about restoring a lost classic that was butchered by the studios before its initial release, like TOUCH OF EVIL or even BLADE RUNNER. It's THE FINAL FRONTIER for "God's" sake.

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Horses for courses I guess. I still maintain the movie is pretty decent even in its current state. I honestly believe with editing, and less importantly, some new FX, there's a much better film waiting to be brought into existence.

I don't know. This whole idea still sounds a lot like closing the shuttlebay doors decades after the ship burned up in re-entry.

I mean, it's not like we're talking about restoring a lost classic that was butchered by the studios before its initial release, like TOUCH OF EVIL or even BLADE RUNNER. It's THE FINAL FRONTIER for "God's" sake.

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Absolutely. People aren't exactly falling over themselves clamoring for an extra-special extended Director's Cut edition of Plan 9 From Outer Space, are they?

I don't know. This whole idea still sounds a lot like closing the shuttlebay doors decades after the ship burned up in re-entry.

I mean, it's not like we're talking about restoring a lost classic that was butchered by the studios before its initial release, like TOUCH OF EVIL or even BLADE RUNNER. It's THE FINAL FRONTIER for "God's" sake.

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Absolutely. People aren't exactly falling over themselves clamoring for an extra-special extended Director's Cut edition of Plan 9 From Outer Space, are they?

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I'd buy it. But then I love old B&W 50s B-movies. If Plan 9 even makes it up to a "B".

It always surprises me when people get very vocal about NOT wanting something to be released. Like it somehow makes their lives worse.

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Amen.

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I don't know. I think it's less about saying "No, no, kill it with fire!" as debating the (rather more interesting) topic of just how "fixable" TFF is, and whether the movie's problems are primarily technical, budgetary, conceptual, or whatever. Which invariably tempts one to dissect the movie into its constituent parts--and opine on just how much of it is salvageable.

That's a discussion you can sink your teeth into, and makes for good message-board fodder.

I mean, how boring a thread would this be if everybody just said "Good idea. Go for it!"

The SPFX are not that outdated. And if you want to fix anything, fix the script.

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The only reason you say that about the FX is because so much stuff in the last 15 years has been shot with the no-blur look. The artistic disaster of shooting miniatures in such a manner makes them strobe, which is a visual discontinuity (to put it mildly.)

The fact that this look is getting stuffed down our throats doesn't make it better, just more common, and it certainly doesn't excuse the seriously flawed planning and execution on TFF VFX. (I'm not picking on the show's physical effects - they did the best they could there, and flying a shuttlecraft full of people in to land and seeing them all disembark in the same shot was pretty snazzy.)

We still seem to be circling around that whole "Some people don't want it to happen at all just because they don't want to see it" routine. Which doesn't really matter, as it will have no effect on whether or not it might happen some day...it just seems selfish is all.

We still seem to be circling around that whole "Some people don't want it to happen at all just because they don't want to see it" routine. Which doesn't really matter, as it will have no effect on whether or not it might happen some day...it just seems selfish is all.

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Nah, we're just debating whether it's worth the effort, that's all. Which is what people do on message boards.

Again, what's the the point of raising the topic unless it's going to provoke a lively discussion?